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Melancholy-Cover · Shadow Of Intent

EXERCISE 4 OF 55
Groove S -- Part S
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0 / 55 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART W, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
PART G
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesHGS1MS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melancholy-Cover on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-21, silence through bars 22-27, toms through bars 28-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 100-102 and 104-106, and 6 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Melancholy-Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 75, 142 and 166.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Melancholy-Cover?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Melancholy-Cover hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Melancholy-Cover?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 75, 142 and 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED